OREGON CITY, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1913.
MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS - By Gross
HENRY JR. SAYS
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MORNING ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
E. E. BRODIE Editor and Publisher
today is, "Fewer laws and better." It is a slogan that is well worth while.
The readiness of the legislatures to jenact and enact and enact, apparently
without end, piles up the statutes, complicates the proceedure, and ' finally
taxes the' costs and burdens upon the man who is least able to meet them.
Entered as second-class matter January 9, 1911, at the postoffice at
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-MINIMIZING In every meeting of state bar associations, the best legal
COURT COSTS minds of the country make spasmodic efforts to cut
down the forms of legal proceedure and curtail the expenses of a suit at law.
Amost every one of the state associations has recommended some change
in the proceedure of the courts that will eliminate the waste of time and
money that litigation through the courts now entails. It is a notorious fact
that suits in the courts of this country cost more than those of any other of
the would's nations. The forms through which a litigant must go, the papers
that he must file, the expenses that must be met, all make the proceedure ir.
our courts one long drawn out fight from beginning to end and the costs are,
in'many cases, almost prohibitive.
There are records in this county and in every other county of the state that
would almost fill volumns. There are cases where the papers fill several
packages in the record files. In some courts, the papers number dozens and
have run into the scores. Especially is this true, if the case is one of long
standing and if there are numerous legal and technical points that have to
be fought out by the counsel of the contending parties to the action.
Lawyers themselves admit that there is little use for a great deal of the
effort that is expended in bringing a case to trial. It would be much easier
were half of the papers that are now filed and half of the expense now at
tached to a suit at law eliminated and the process made simple and easy.
Many times a plaintiff does not go into the courts and justice is not
served between parties who have real grounds for complaint because he can-
not afford the attendant expenses of a suit through the courts. There are,
it is true, many of the forms that are necessary in order to give both sides
of the action the proper hearing and the proper amount of time in which to
prepare a defense to a complaint. There are other forms that are simply a
waste of time and effort and that merely add to the intricacy of the court
proceedure without adding anything material or important to the rights of
the parties before the court.
Proceedure of this kind should be abolished. The trial of cases should be
so simplified that all of this endless work and confusion would not be pos
sible, even in the cases that are fought inch by inch to the supreme court of
the state.
Justice is meant for every man. It was not destined for the select few.
Neither was it intended that only those-who had money to fight their cases
through the courts should receive the benefit of those courts. The'framers
of the documents that have made the legal history of the English speaking
peoples intended that justice should extend to the man with great wealth as
well as to the man with none. In the passing of years of legal decisions and
legislative enactments, however, the original intent seems to have become
more or less hazy and the suits at law have now become so complex and in
tricate that it takes months and even years to push suit through to final de-termirT.tion.
The slogan of many of our wisest jurists and legal reformers, as well as
many of the commercial clubs and business organizations over the country
Health of School Children Better
Protected Here Than Abroad
By Professor LEO BURGERSTEIN of the Roya! University, Vienna
THE UNITED STATES IS MOVING FORWARD RAPIDLY TOWARD
THE ZENITH IN THE MODERN ERA OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCA
TION. I CAN ONLY PREDICT THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF
"THINGS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN" FOR AMERICANS YEARS BE
FORE THE OLD WORLD HAS REALIZED THAT IT IS BEING OUT
DISTANCED. In ventilation, school buildings, lighting systems, co-operation of va
- rious states and the installation of innovations such as the single desk
and open air school ideas the United States outrivals European improve
ments. Open air schools are IDEAL METHODS OF INSTRUC
TION. The interest displayed by people of wealth is one of the factors
which have made improvement in the conditions of your country re
markable. The hygienic importance of the single seat idea as practiced in nearly
all American schools cannot be overestimated. Children sitting alone
are less liable to infection.
The highly polished wire glass windows used in the school .buildings
of America are also a vast asset to the health of the school child. This
glass produces more and BETTER LIGHT. As a result children do
not suffer as much from eye strain. BLACKBOARDS, ARE A MIS
TAKE, as the boards, in many cases covering one entire wall of the
schoolroom, consume a great deal of light. White boards are ideal.
Black crayon makes the writing on these as prominent. - s-
EDUCATION Within the last few years, education has spread through
CONTAGIOUS the United States like an epidemic. The schools of the
country have grown wonderfully, the faculties have reached a higher standard
than they have ever had before, and the desire for "knowledge has given us
a high educational ranking in the countries of the world.
This advance has been due to the public school system and to the effort that
they have made to carry the education that they have bottled up to the masses
where it can be of use to the state. It has also been due to the spread of
libraries through the country and to the demand for the education that they
bring to the most isolated communities of the state.
Libraries have everywhere played an important part in the development
of the educational standards of the community. -They have been a factor,
second only to the public school system, in the raising of that standard that
has given us the place that we now hold.
The masses do not attend the higher institutions of learning and we have
not that number of exceptionally learned men that some of the other nations
have. The number is constantly growing, however, and the edicts of some
of the professors of specialized studies are taken with that same respect for
the voice of authority that we are accustomed to accord to those of German
institutions and universities of England and of France.
But our main educational effort has always been with the masses of the
people. We have always endeavored to raise the standards of the general
citizenship rather than to round off the rough edges of those who have passed
through the grammar and high school grades. It has always been the aim
of the educators to raise the average of learning in the country rather than
to push that average higher yet by attendance at the universities and colleges.
So general has this been the policy of the educational institutions that a
writer in a recent magazine has called us a "country with average averages."
He has pointedly referred to the fact that we have no class so highly trained
and educated as to dominate the political or financial affairs of the nation.
Some of our best statesmen, our leading men in national affairs have had but
an average education. They have not passed through those higher branches
of learning that distinguishes the statesmen of England from those of the
United States.. . - .
So general has this idea of higher education pervaded the masses of the
Isles that there is almost a class line that divides the political factions in af
fairs that interest the nation at large. It is not so here. Education has,
however, spread so generally through the country that the attendance at the
universities and colleges is steadily increasing and the faculties are gaining
in .numbers and strength.
Too, the several states have in their constitutions recognised the tact that
a trained citizenship means a b&ter state and have endowed their institutions
with funds to meet the contingent expenses. Such institutions should be lib
erally supplied to care for every man or woman who wants to gain the higher
education that the state provides. It is an investment that the state can well
afford to make. It is one that daily returns a heavy interest on the money
expended. For that reason, the appropriation bills of the university of this
state should not be allowed to go by the board at the next election nor should
the schools be allowed to suffer because of some peculiar idea of institution
consolidation.
NEW BUNGALOW
1 story plastered house, full
basement, hot and cold water,
bath and toilet built in kitchen;
barn and chicken house; lot 100
xlOO; fruit of all kinds; good
lawn; 1 block from car line.
$2200.00, part cash, balance on
time.
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
Automobiles for Hire
PHONES: MAIN 77; A 193
IVIiller-Parlcer Co.
pense of caring for intoxicated persons
when they endeavor to make their
way home at night all without any
increase in benefits.
Yours very truly,
MAXWELL VIETOR.
f EVERY DOLLAR
that you have no immediate need cf
will soon be more than a dollar if you
leave it with us for a-specified time.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
FORUM OF THE PEOPLE
AS TO THAT $150,000
OREGON CITY, Ore., Oct. 11, -1913.
(Editor of The Enterprise) An ed
itorial in Saturday's Enterprise, en
titled "Bar Money Would be Spent in
Stores," charges that $150,000 a year
is received in saloons of Oregon City,
and that practically none of this
money finds its way into local chan
nels. It is declared that the greater
part of this sum goes to Portland
wholesale liquor dealers, and the as-j
sertion is made that if the coming pro
hibition election carries, this vast sum I
of money will be spent in local stores
or deposited in local banks. This is
a charming argument, but unfortu
nately it is not correct.
Investigation will show you that
the major portion of the patrons of
Oregon City saloons are single men
who have nobody "dependent upon
them. If the Oregon City saloons are
closed, these men, and the married
ones as well, will go elsewhere to ob
tain liquor. Most of them will go to
Portland. Being unable to patronize
saloons in Oregon City, they will
"make up for lost opportunities" when
in Portland, and will spend more over
Portland bars than they ever spent at
home. Moreover, they will not be
safeguarded by the strict regulations
that govern Oregon City saloons, and
will return to their homes carrying all
they can possibly imbibe. Thus their
money will still "go to Portland," only
more of it will go, and go directly.
You raise the issue that Oregon City
saloonmen obtain their stock in trade!
from Portland wholesale houses. So
do Oregon City dry-goods merchants,
and Oregon City grocers and butchers.
In fact all local stores buy their wares
in wholesale markets ; and it is just
as reasonable to argue that the money
spent here by their patrons goes to
Portland, even as does the money that
the saloonman takes in.
The statement that $150,000 a year
is spent over Oregon City bars is a
considerable flattery of the local sa
loon business. Oregon City saloon3
probably average $20 a day apiece, or
$200 a day in the aggregate. In the
300 days of the year on which they
are open this makes a yearly income
of $60,000 and of this they pay $10,
000, or one-sixth of the total, to the
city in licenses. No other local busi
ness gives as large a share of its re
ceipts to Oregon City.
Closing the saloons, then, will not
only deprive Oregon City of $10,000 a
year in revenue, and so add approx
imately five dollars annually to the
payments demanded of each taxpayer;
but it will, if past experience is any
criterion, leave ten vacant storebuild
ings in the business part of town, and
so will work toward lower rentals.
None of the saloons closed by the
council during the past year has as
yet been rented for any other purpose,
and it is not reasonable to suppose
that the closing of ten more will in
crease business activity.
In publishing the arguments of the
workers of the Anti-Saloon League,
which institution, incidentally, is not
an Oregon City affair,- it would be well
to lay before your readers the other
side of the question. Confiscation ol
the saloon business in this city will,
in brief, reduce municipal revenues
$10,000 each year will send to Portland
and other cities Oregon City men who
want to buy liquor and who will also
buy clothes and groceries in the larger
stores of the metropolis at the same
time, will increase the number of un
rented store buildings and so lower
.rentals in general, and will still leave
the city with the problems and ex-
OREGON CITY, Or., Octo. 11 (Edi
tor of the Enterprise. I wish to offer
a suggestion to the city council and
live wires, looking for a location for a
public play ground. Attention has
been called to the fact that the city
owns the public square bounded by
Adams, Jefferson, 12th and 13th
streets, being the block" west of the
Barclay school and used in conjunc
tion therewith as a playground. This
block has a deep gully running
through it and there is quite a ridge
separating it from 13th street, which
is also a ravine or gully, on the north.
As these gulleys are from 15 to 20
feet deep it would require filling to
fill to grade. Now it is possible for a
few hundred dollaf to grade down
the ridge and level off a field 8 or 10
feet lower than the grade of 12th
street, and being thus lower allows
the sides of the blocks to be used as
a natural ampitheatre for spectators,
the trees on the south side to be pre
served for shade and beauty. There
could be room for a field of 300 feet
long by 250 feet wide, including 13th
street, which could be vacated for
such a purpose, as it cannot be used
in its present condition. .
These grounds -would always be
high and dry and are centrally located
and close to the high school.
An improvement here has a perma
nent value for the school equipment
and under the watchful eyes of the
school teachers and janitors, which
alone is worth consideration. -.
Half the money expended for a trad
of and which has the questionable
features of being out of the way and
subject to overflow at least twice
yearly, would practically put the Bar
clay Square in good condition for a
large play ground, and the work could
be done during this winter, to the best
advantage; and be ready for the ball
and tennis season next year.
CITIZEN.
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED
To the Editor of the Morning Enter
prise: 1. Have men not the right to
sell liquor if they so desire?
No inherent right only such as is
delegated to them by the community.
Where saloons are made legal by
license the saloon man is entitled to
protection of the law. (so long as he
obeys its injunctions) "and to fair play,
But the supreme-court has decided
that his rights, from a business stand
point, ar' ill delegated to him by his
license.
2. Jf the city goes dry1 will we not
have "blind pigs?"
In 1912 Chicago had 7152 saloons,
but over 8000 additional places sold
liquor under federal license, without
the city license. Under the saloon re
gime more blind tigers than saloons.
We have them in Oregon City to day
under license, as every business man
knows. . Now we have both "tiger"
and saloon. Then we will have only
"tiger."
Many men go into a legalized place
with their friends who would not go
into an illicit place.
Chapter 250, Oregon Laws of 1913,
make it necessary for every liquor
package shpped into dry territory to
be plainly so marked; the consignee
must sign his own name; so signing
makes him responsible for the dis
posal of such liquor, and can be used
as evidence of "bling pigging," if
shipped in over the quantity he could
dispose of. It makes it almost impos
sible to get liquor without leaving
yourself liable, except in suit-case
quantities, which would do little harm.
3. If the city goes dry will men not
get all they want at the drug stores?
An insult to 'our druggists, as re
spectable and law abiding a class of
merchants as we have in the city.
Even if they were not, our temper
ance law of Oregon says they can only
sell in dry territory upon a doctor's
prescription. This is recorded, and
cannot be re-filled. If a physician
could be found (a rather hard matter)
who would issue such prescriptions
too often, th eact provides for a way
of attending to his case. Nothing in
this argument. ...
4. If Oregon City goes dry will they
not plant saloons in Gladstone and
West Linn?
To plant one" in West Linn there
must be a majority vote of the city
before admitting any license clause
to. the charter, a pretty difficult mat
ter, as our liquor friends have fround
in the state of Arkansas, where they
have discovered- that this virtually
amounts to prohibition, nearly the
entire state having gone dry since the
legislature passed the "majority vote"
clause. -
Gladstone real estate has a "no li
cense" clause. Can't plant- saloons
there.
5. If Oregon City goes dry men will
CUT FLOWERS AND POTTED PLANTS
Also all kinds of Fruit Trees, Roses and Shrubbery for sale at the
new green houses at Third and Center Streets. Funeral work done
at lowest possible prices. Orders received over phone Main 2511.
H. J. BIGGER
go to Portland for their liquor. :
If so the railways will not carry
them home drunk, and they will have
to sober up where they get the liquor.
Is the man with a steady job likely
to lie off two or three times a week
to get drink? Many men call into our
saloons coing to and coming from
work. The saloon is handy, and they
take their glass two or three times a
day. Many of them do not care for
the liquor. Some other fellow goes
in, and they go with him. All this
drinking would be stopped. A large
percentage of the mill pay-checks are
cashed in the saloon. What if there
was no saloon? Who would get the
tir-'c )-'ii r i.hen?
6. Bat think of the $10,000 lost to
th ci- -
As the editor ot the Enterprise re
cently showed, $150,000 is a big salary
to pay out for the collection of $10,
000 revenue.
We have yet to see the town hurt,
by going dry. Eugene, wet in 1906,
had but 5,000 population, no street
cars, no sewers, no large buildings.
Now dry, Eugene has over 15,000 pop
ulation; 13 miles of electric lines;
good sewers; 3 four-story buildings;
a ?COO,000 municipal lighting plant;
and this year 93 building permits were
issued for structures to cost $500,000.
And last election Eugene went dry
three toone.
Look now at Albany. When wet it
had no paving, no large hotels, and
but 3,000 population. Now dry, Al
bany (all gained since it went dry)
has 6,000 population; 6 miles of paved
streets; bank deposits doubled; an
$80,000 hotel; another, $30,000; and in
the last three years building repre
sent an outlay of $350,000 were erect
ed. Last year 725 men paying taxes
on $100,000 of property signed a peti
tion to put the town wet. Within 48
hours 725 other persons, paying taxes
on $2,000,000 property signed a count
er dry petition. This showed how the
taxpayers felt. The town stayed dry.
W. T. MILLIKEN,
"THE UKSEEU MIRACLE.
The niijifi if the night, when
niglil was gone.
HiKli "i'ni In! veil's ramparts
cried 'The dawn!"
And wheeling worlds grew radi
ant with the one
And undiminished glory of the
sun
And angel, seraph, saint and
c-benihim
Raised to the morning their ex
ultant hymn.
All heaven thrilled anew to'look
upon
The great recurring miracle of
(fawn
And in the little worlds beneath
them men
Rase, yawued and ate and turn
ed to toil again.
Theodosla Garrison.
FOR SALE
7-room modern bungalow, 1
blocks from car line, on graded.
Little down, balance $17.50 per
month, this includes interest. Ad
dress, Box 369, Gladstone, for interview.
S L. G. ICE. DENTIST
Beaver Building
Phones: Main 1221 or A-193 S
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FOR RENT.
FOR RENT Furnished room, with
light and heat. Enquire Enterprise.
MISCELLANEOUS
TO EXCHANGE A beautiful country
home, five acres, good house, plen
ty of fruit of al lkinds; on South
End road one and one-half miles
from city; for Oregon City or Port
land home. No agent. Phone own
er, Farmers 229.
A CHANCE One acre suitable for
chicken ranch; 6-room plastered
house; chicken houses and "barn;
creek, well and hydrant. Price $1800
half cash. See G. Grossenbacher,
Canemah.
Boiling Eggs.
Often when boiling eggs the white
comes through the shell and spoils the
taste of the egg through its appear
ance. This may be prevented if a tea
spoonfui of salt is put into the watei
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Women wear short sleeves to prove
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S, GUSTAV FLECHTNER ?
S Teacher of Violin
$ wishes to announce that he -has S
$ resumed teaching at his studio,
S 612 Center Street. 4
3 Solo and Orchestra Work ?.
? Phones: Main 1101 Home M-172
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Pabst's Okay Specific
$300
Does the worK. You all
know it by reputation.
Price
FOR SALE BY
JONES DRUG COMPANY
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE, at a bargain 2-cylinder,
7-horse, late model Excelsor motor
cycle. Equipped; has tamden seat.
Ask for E. Brown, Enterprise office.
FOR SALE $35 Per Acre 160 acres,
70 acres cultivated, good orchard,
fair buildings; R. F. D.; living wa
ter; 25 miles south of Portland; ex
cellent soil. $1000 cash, balance on
long time, 6 per cent. F. B. Madi
son, Oregon City.
PIGS FOR SALE 3 months old, $5.00.
Phone 2013.
FOR SALE Good team of horses and
harness, farm wagon, buggy, ten
acres of potatoes in ground. Cheap
for cash. Henry Boege, Rt. No. 5,
Box 78, Oregon City.
FOR SALE Gasoline wood saw;
good as new, and 2 sucking colts, i
months old. F. Steiner, Oregon
City, Rt. No. 3. Tele. Beaver Creek.
FOR SALE Fresh cow with calf.
Grossenbacher, Canemah.
G.
FOR SALE 30 acres good level land.
10 acres in cultivation; 10 slashed,
balance in timber; 1 miles north
of Mulino on good road. $150 down;
balance 2 years, 7 per cent interest.
Address Mrs. M. E. Graves, Canby,
Oregon Rt. No. I.
WOOD AND COAL
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL CO.
Wood and coal, 4-foot and 16-inch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing -especially. Phono
your orders Pacific 1371, Home
A120. F. M. BLUHM
Old Debt.
"I never pay old debts." "How about
your new ones?" "Oh. I let them gel
old." Boston Transcript.
D. C. LATOURETTE, President.
F. J. MEYER, Cashier.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF OREGON CITY, OREGON
CAPITAL $50000 00
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